Does anyone know about teaching languages in Florida or know anyone? I’m asking for someone considering to relocate to the Tampa/St. Petersburg area. Email me at benslavic@yahoo.com if you have any information and thanks. I do know that Florida is as tough as it gets on teachers.

Here is something I enjoyed reading on Jim Tripp’s site: http://www.trippsscripts.com/single-post/2016/08/21/Chomsky-1975-on-the-Unconscious-Nature-of-Language-Acquisition

Tina and I learned a lot from each other this summer in our workshops, and classroom management was at the top of the things that we worked on. We have five or six “plans” now (levels of intervention). Here is Plan D, my favorite, because it is a true power move, perhaps the best I’ve

Meg asks the group: I have a class that used to be super chatty and is still a bit on that side/disrespectful. But with new seating today, NOBODY raised hands with suggestions for our OWI. I should have given suggestions, or done a turn and talk, but I was so seething I had to go

We all will get challenged on the topic of rigor in what we do. It’s just a question of when. So when it happens to you, be ready with this post from Robert some years ago: I’m sorry to hear you are getting grief from your administrator about rigor. It sounds to me like he

Connected to the entire Invisibles year long approach is the wonderful idea that in the spring we don’t actually work, but rather just enjoy walking around the room supervising seven teams of students who are preparing for the Final Show. Can’t go into it here because it is too long to describe, but not working

Ky just joined our group. She reports: Over Christmas break I read A Natural Approach to Stories and the Bite Size Book of Classroom Management. I went to school yesterday, after not lesson planning one bit over vacation, and had the best day I’ve had in a long time. I opened with a discussion about

In some school populations, the character’s name is enough to assume the person’s gender.  If it is named Bill, it is a boy, and if it is named Sally, it is a girl.  However, the national culture is changing rapidly in regards to gender identity and expression.  Therefore, in many school populations, it is not

Tina and I just finished our new Bite Size Book on Classroom Management. I am offering it (only here) at no charge so just follow this link if you want it. (Please keep the link private to PLC members only.) It might help some of us reset our classroom management buttons for the new year:

Just got this from Alisa. It is such a big part of Classroom Management: Ben, This is fascinating on power poses and very relevant for teachers like us. Best in 2018, Alisa

In a comment here today, Greg wrote: “When asked, a major TPRS trainer said earlier this year in a presentation that they only do oral TPRS stories until November, then they start on novels. “So that’s August, September, October of oral stories (3 months) and November, December, January, Februrary, March, April, May (7 months) of

It’s time to rest and sleep. After all, we all know what’s coming in just a few short weeks. New readers here are invited to read back through the ten years of articles and comments, search topics in the search bar, etc. Let’s regroup in January when the “fun” starts again.